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Christian History Magazine—Issue 13: Jan Amos Comenius: Father of Modern Education is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jean Piaget writes, “Education, according to Comenius, is not merely the training of the child at school or in the home; it is a process affecting man’s whole life and the countless social adjustments he must make.” This issue of Christian History & Biography introduces the father of Christian Education, a man who amidst exile from his homeland held an inextinguishable hope in the faithfulness of...

Faithful to his church’s teaching, he stressed purity of life more than theology, and showed a remarkable broadmindedness about the two main matters of dispute among the various Protestant groups of his time—the Lord’s Supper and predestination. About the Lord’s Supper he wrote, Whether this sacrament is received by mouth or by faith alone, why do ye quarrel about it? Why do ye wish to discuss that about which the Scriptures are silent?… Remember that we all know only in part, and especially remember